'American Horror Story: Coven': How it ended

And the new leader of the coven is ... (Drumroll, please) ... Cordelia Foxx.

Yes, the daughter of Fiona followed in her mother's footsteps to attain the seat of ultimate power in Wednesday night's mesmerizing season finale of "American Horror Story: Coven."

And you thought it was going to be Stevie Nicks?

Granted, there probably weren't a lot of viewers who had Cordelia in their Supreme pool. (Our money was on Zoe). But, after beginning the night on the sidelines, she wound up stepping into the competition and besting all of her young charges. Thus we had our answer to the season's central question.

The episode began with Stevie strolling and twirling through Miss Robichaux's while singing "Seven Wonders." It's a song from Fleetwood Mac's 1987 album., "Tango in the Night." But it's also a reference to the seven powers that a witch must master before becoming a Supreme: Telekinesis, Concilum (mind control), Transmutation (teleportation), Divination (intuitive perception), Vitalum Vitalis (bringing the dead back to life), Decension (going to the afterlife and returning safely), and Pyrokinesis (burning stuff up.)

And so, in a "Survivor"-like smackdown, Misty, Queenie, Madison and Zoe went at it, striving to display their dominance while Cordelia and Myrtle officiated.

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All the girls easily breezed through the early rounds, which involved some hilarious face-slapping and hair-pulling. But Misty fell by the wayside when she got stuck in, and couldn't return from, her version of hell: Being forced over and over to dissect a live frog in a biology class. The other girls managed to safely return, including Madison, whose hell was being cast in the live stage version of "Sound of Music" -- "and I wasn't even the lead."

Then poor Zoe was eliminated during the Transmutation round when she accidentally impaled herself on the iron gate outside the coven. Two down, two to go.

But by now, Madison had enough of the silly games. She refused to bring Zoe back to life and demanded, "Either crown me, or kiss my ass!"

But Myrtle urged Cordelia to join the competition and when Cordelia managed to return from her version of hell (Being bitch-slapped by Mommy Dearest), Madison was confronted by a serious and unexpected rival. And then Cordelia eventually bested the other two in Divination, sending Madison off in a huff and threatening to return to Hollywood, "where people are normal."

But Madison never got out of New Orleans because Franken-Kyle, enraged that she let Zoe die, choked her to death (What happened to all her powers?).

Among Cordelia's first acts as Supreme? Bring Zoe back to life and go on a TV news program to publicly urge all witches to come out of the shadows and do some girl-power bonding. Oh, and she reluctantly agreed to burn Myrtle at the stake (at the old witch's own urging) as a sign that she won't be weak on crime.

Thanks to Cordelia's TV interview, young, black-clad women began flocking to Miss Robichaux's, where enrollment records were shattered and Zoe and Queenie were installed as new, young-generation members of the Council.

But that was the extent of the happy endings. Before "AHS: Coven" signed off for good, we got a glimpse of Fiona's bleak afterlife: Stuck in some isolated country cabin with the Axeman, where the smell of catfish constantly filled the air and, horror of horrors, the walls and floors were made of knotty pine.

Now, THAT'S scary.

So what did you think of the finale? Did you predict who the new Supreme would be? And where do you hope "AHS" takes us in its next incarnation?